Two years ago Christopher Sutton launched The Musicality Podcast, which has recently become Musicality Now.
In this episode on Your Codex and Creativity he shares an important reminder from a book excerpt we discussed on the interview I did with him a couple of years ago. In his book, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, author Thad Carhart recounts a master class he observed in which Gyorgy Sebok responded to a student who was trying to achieve a particular effect in his playing, “Leonardo spent years developing a codex of body parts. He drew ears, he drew elbows, he drew hands, he drew all parts of the body in as many different aspects as he could. Then he forgot about it and painted what he saw. You must do somewhat the same.”
This is an illustration that first inspired me ten years ago and helped me develop my philosophy of effective education. I initially wrote about it in the post, How to Educate for Beautiful Results. I’m grateful to Christopher for bringing it to light again; it is a timely reminder as we head into a new year of teaching with ample opportunity to encourage students in both developing their “codex” and exploring their creativity!
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